Silvan

Hi there, welcome into the Silvan-area on soundclick.com. We're from the Netherlands and hope you like our music.

On a rainy weekend in september 2001 Ilja Edwards and René van de Polder are on their way to the English town Colchester. Armed with a guitar and an electronic piano this duo is about to perform in an English pub where some of their English friends work. The two musicians have been knowing eachother for a very long time, but they met eachother again some years after they both finished highschool. The first thing they did was talk about music. Ilja told he wanted to form a band and that he could use a keyboard player as well. René has been playing for many years. He always wanted to start a band with his schoolmate Sander. They formed a band called No Decision. With and within a couple of weeks of hard practice the first No Decision songs were there. Unfortunately 15 year old drummer Eelco Ladan had to leave the band because of a lack of time. The band tried to carry on. Unfortunately without any result. After Eelco some other members joined the band. No Decision did a few gigs with some cover songs and Ilja and René were ready to write some new material but they put it away in the cupboard for possible later usage. After many efforts to accomplish something with this formation René and Ilja concluded that there wasn't anything happening with this band anymore. The songs became boring and even though the motivation was still there, the guys didn't seem to enjoy themselves anymore. But here in Colchester, were 2 songwriters who had loads of new material. Ready to be presented to a selective crowd in a nice pub called The Castle. The response of the crowd was stunning: "With this music you guys can play anywhere in the UK, I am telling you, anywhere..." For Ilja and René all the pieces felt right into the puzzle. So the next step was starting a band again, so they could play all their new songs. After months of thinking and searching for other musicians the solution for the how-do-we-get-a-new-band problem was already out there. Old No Decision drummer Eelco Ladan really felt he wanted something new after a period with different bands and Sander didn't mind grabbing a bass guitar for a change.In October 2001 the four guys started rehearsing some new songs. A couple of months later, on New Years Eve, René called Ilja on his cellular phone with the message he had a new band name: Silvan was born. Some songs were really taking shape in the later period so the next step was performing on stage again. They chose a local theatre in Brielle for the debut gig. A really cosy small venue with a beautiful, nostalgic atmosphere. Ramon Kruik, a good friend of Ilja and a cousin of René was working there, so he could take charge of the engineering part of the gig. The theatre gig was a perfect way to present all their new songs to the local audience. More than 120 people were witness of this brilliant debut on March 23rd 2002. The night was a huge success. After a long period of time the guys wanted to record some material. They recorded three new songs in Utrecht. The demo containing this songs is just released for promotion of the Silvan-songs. The music of Silvan could be described in many ways but the main issue would be FEELING The band is inspired by such names as; Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Heather Nova, Muse and Coldplay and many others. One of the main conditions that the band made is continuing progression, talking about progression meaning the music and the progress of the band itself. Writing songs with good melodies, songs with power and soul. That's what it's about!!! The members have been friends for a very long time and know eachother's musical preferences, they understand their musical ambitions and they all have the same goal to reach out for. Silvan hits the road, and keeps on working for that thing they all appreciate in bands they admire: The magic of ENSEMBLE

Yes we do, we play in holland and made some trips to the UK.

Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Muse, Coldplay, Ben folds Five